The kid down the street picked up a used lawnmower at a garage sale last summer for a couple of bucks and started going door to door searching for mowing jobs. He had set up a few regular mowing jobs and thought he could handle more so he started going from door to door searching for a few more. Someone called the cops on him and in a short while the police were at his house explaining to his mother that people under the age of 18 were not allowed to operate machinery, including lawnmowers, and that she would be required to comply by not allowing him to operate a lawnmower. So now when I go on vacation I have to hire a "professional" lawn service who charges considerably more than the neighbor kid and they do a crappy job compared to what the kid did.
